Comment Re:Ranging from proof of life to first contact? (Score 1) 286
Means the results are here on earth. Five bucks says its about extremophiles in the transition area between the crust and the mantle.
Sex Drugs and Texting 287
statesman writes "The Associated Press reports that teens who text frequently are three and a half times more likely to have sex. A survey of 4,200 public high school students in the Cleveland area found that one in five students sent more than 120 text messages a day or spent more than 3 hours a day on Facebook. Students in this group were much more likely to have sex. Alcohol and drug use also correlate with frequent texting and heavy Facebook use."
Religious Ceremony Leads To Evolution of Cave Fish 233
An anonymous reader writes "A centuries-old religious ceremony of an indigenous people in southern Mexico has led to evolutionary changes in a local species of fish, say researchers at Texas A&M University. Apparently since before Columbus arrived, the Zoque people would venture each spring into the sulfuric cave Cueva del Azufre to beg the gods for bountiful rain. As part of the ritual, they released into the cave's waters a leaf-bound paste made of lime and the ground-up root of the barbasco plant, a natural fish toxin. The rest is worth reading, but the upshot is that the fish living in the cave waters eventually got wise, genetically speaking."
Comment Re:Yes and? (Score 1) 121
To be fair, a bendable mechanical robot suit would be pretty cool...
Comment Re:Begging the question (Score 1) 390
This is terrible advice. The first thing you need to do is consult a lawyer- the consultation will almost always be free- and the first thing they will tell you is not to do exactly this kind of shit. It can only make things worse.
Comment Re:Pirate Bay Up (Score 1) 325
I see lots of posts saying its up, but it's down for me. No idea.
Comment Re:Technical Analysis much simpler (Score 2, Interesting) 206
You can call back up into Java from the JNI, so technically the NDK exposes everything that the Java side does. I used this to allow Python access to the android libraries via javalin2 last year.
Portal 2 Gets Release Date 110
AndrewGOO9 writes "After what has seemed like an eternity since Valve initially announced a sequel to their lauded puzzle title Portal, a release date has finally been attached to the game. Originally slated to be released before the end of the year in time for the holidays, Valve instead opted to delay the game, citing reasons such as, 'making games is hard' as well as continuing their tradition of releasing games when they're finished as opposed to rushing them out the door. Either way, mark your calendars for February 9th, 2011, and in the meantime, brush up on thinking with portals."
There's some new gameplay footage available, and Valve announced that Stephen Merchant will be lending his voice to the game.
Comment Re:Dude! (Score 1) 239
Well, yes, but the fourth core was still locked, and in many cases was fully functional. They just locked a core on a quad core to avoid the cost of retooling to produce the triple core design when market demand exceeded the number of failed chips.
Comment Re:Dude! (Score 1) 239
I may be missing a split hair someplace, but in case you haven't played with them AMD sold a bunch of defective quad cores as triple cores with the defective one locked. A lot of the time they still worked fine.
Comment Re:I heart Ubuntu (Score 1) 718
I put Ubuntu on the machine and told them I just changed the wallpaper.
Comment Re:Let hackers identify the offending chip(s)... (Score 1) 294
Hmmm, well, I can't say I agree with that- I've open sourced the work I've done on Apple's OSX updater, various crypto toolkits, etc, and have never seen anybody do anything about it until I've either contacted them directly or released it into the wild- but, it's your code so you're the boss.
Anyways, if you'd like to collaborate drop me an email- my username@gmail.com.
Anyways, if you'd like to collaborate drop me an email- my username@gmail.com.
Comment Re:Let hackers identify the offending chip(s)... (Score 1) 294
Was just considering this. Have you open sourced what you have?
Comment Re:Or do not have variable delays at all (Score 1) 304
when you change just one character on the input if you use a good algorithm (sha2 or rijndael aka AES) so it's difficult, if not impossible to predict what change will happen in the hash by changing the input, if you don't know the secret and initialization vector.
AES is not a hash. AES is a symmetric block cipher.
Comment Re:Pretty Obvious Reasoning (Score 1) 432
35 = 15
Math and science education is seriously lacking.
Yeah! You can't assign to a constant like that!
